>The best video game storyline
>Zero gameplay
Fricking why? What is the point if you can't even PLAY the game?
>The best video game storyline. >Zero gameplay
>The best video game storyline
>Zero gameplay
Fricking why? What is the point if you can't even PLAY the game?
Has anyone encountered a moron that doesn't know what a Visual Novel is? Besides OP being moronic, most people see the words "visual novel" and think "By Golly Gosh, this a novel with visual elements" and not "video gaem"
Technically using the phone is gameplay.
>""""gameplay""""
No.
That's because visual novels are barely games.
Then why are they only allowed on this board? Checkmate aetheists.
they're not. /vg/ has a /vn/ general for english-translated japanese vns and /jp/ allows any japanese vn discussion
Visual novels belong here. Fitting for a board that never talks about games.
That's right there should be a round of peggle between each scene with Okabe sound effects!
>best story in gaming
>would be better off with no gameplay
insert image of library of runia
Is the gameplay really that bad? I was planning to get it at some point.
>The best video game storyline
1. VN's are not video games
2. Its not even the best VN story
Its a good story dont get me wrong but jesus christ does it have some seriously bad plot holes sometimes. And dont even get me started on the whole
>i turned my microwave into a time machine with micro black holes morty!
Based Umiking setting the pretenders straight.
Umineko isnt the best either. Its either underwater ray ramano or muvluv but i havent finished the 3rd game of the former yet so i cant say.
>ray romano
Never saw the appeal.
>thinks muvluv is better
>hasn't even finished it
You are incredibly wrong to make that statement then. Personally I love the ending but there's a 50/50 chance you'll end up hating muvluv. Frankly the second game is REALLY good. The third game is just an extended ending and hardly feels like a story in its own right. If they had edited some stuff out and added it to unlimited no one would have noticed. I get why they did it the way they did it but it really does start to heat up where unlimited left off.
>>hasn't even finished it
>the former
there is nothing worth reading in the rest of your ESL post if you dont know the difference between the former and the latter.
So I skim read your post. Cry about it. I have nothing to say about ray romano to begin with. It seems extremely gay and the other stuff in the universe appears to suck (not that any VN is immune to this).
Umi is still better.
even troonyneko is better than this
>Umineko isnt the best either
HRTless goat spotted.
>>i turned my microwave into a time machine with micro black holes morty!
What's the problem? It's fiction. Time machines are fictional. No story ever written is going to have a plausible theory of time travel because it's not real.
>you dont even have to remotely try to make it plausible because its fiction
>t. moron
Its called suspension of disbelief. A good writer will try to make their fiction seem as believable as possible and I would use the tv show DarK as a good example of how to write a compelling and plausible theory for time travel.
No one is going to bother reading your posts esl kun go away.
>moron taking it on both ends and still thinks he's on top
Lol, lmao
>you dont even have to remotely try to make it plausible because its fiction
No, you don't have to try to make it plausible because it isn't. I'm not saying Steins;Gate is fiction therefore its time travel doesn't need to be plausible. I'm saying time travel itself as a physical concept is implausible given our current understanding. No fiction writer will be able to write plausible time travel because it's not plausible.
Compelling
>and I would use the tv show DarK as a good example of how to write a compelling and plausible theory for time travel.
Black person, S;G and Dark are literally the only two good time travel fiction. I like both very much. If you like one but not he other - you're just a moronic pseud. Well, there's also Groundhog Day and BttF. Both are great.
So what is your excuse for not liking primer.
Physician heal thyself
>So what is your excuse for not liking primer.
Who said I don't like it? But Primer is autism incarnate. It's more like a puzzle than entertainment. I'd rather rewatch something from what I listed instead of watching Primer.
You are moronic. S;G has no plotholes.
Contrarians like to say it has 'plotholes' without even mentioning them if you ask. israelites of the highest order.
S;G does have plot holes if you don't account for S;0 addressing them and even then because S;0 is all but unfinished it leaves them open to interpretation (which I actually like).
Shit like how the video D-mail was sent across multiple timelines within the same worldline for example. He is a brainlet so I doubt he's seeing that level of the setting, rather he's talking about plot contrivances of which there are plenty - but history and fiction share the fact that the most compelling stories are the most unusual and contrived.
>S;G does have plot holes if you don't account for S;0
laugh at this moron
We can laugh at you later.
>no plot holes
>somehow female luka just HAPPENS to know she was really supposed to be a boy
>somehow Kurisu is attracted to Okabe when he has no actual redeeming qualities and is the biggest chuni in existence
>somehow Okabe the chuuni just happens to stumble upon a fricking time machine but no one else ever stumbles upon the time machine in the same way despite the fact microwaves are an extremely common appliance
>somehow you can send text messages across time and space because lol plot
>somehow you can remember everything when you time travel despite the fact you never age
I actually kind of want to replay steins gate chuuni fest just so i can make a list of all the glaring plot holes but holy shit is it the pinnacle of the shitty fricking male character that all the women lust over self insert bullshit.
female luka just HAPPENS to know she was really supposed to be a boy
literally explained, not a plothole
Kurisu is attracted to Okabe when he has no actual redeeming qualities and is the biggest chuni in existence
not a plothole
Okabe the chuuni just happens to stumble upon a fricking time machine but no one else ever stumbles upon the time machine in the same way despite the fact microwaves are an extremely common appliance
not a plothole
you can send text messages across time and space because lol plot
not a plothole, this is the literal premise
you can remember everything when you time travel despite the fact you never age
what?
>literally explained
ok then explain it
maybe you should read the VN instead of reading the synopsis
>says theres an explanation
>refuses to elaborate
Thank you for admitting you were wrong anon.
moron
Why are you still responding to it?
>listed contrivances
Can I get my apology no Mongoloid. I was 100% correct.
>somehow female luka just HAPPENS to know she was really supposed to be a boy
Reading Steiner isn't Okabe's special ability. It's basically dejavu and everybody has it. If there is a big change in time line (changing gender, erasing the existence of cafe), they are bound to remember it if there was someone to tell that what they day dreamed wasn't a dream.
>somehow Kurisu is attracted to Okabe when he has no actual redeeming qualities and is the biggest chuni in existence
She is a channer who can't help themselves but roast a chuni moron. Also her attraction is explained multiple times, with him resembling her father with the obsession with the time travel and not being really smart (except Okabe is actually kind and caring unlike her father). If you couldn't see Okabe using his chuni to care for his friends, without being confronting and making things awkward, the writing went over your head.
>somehow Okabe the chuuni just happens to stumble upon a fricking time machine but no one else ever stumbles upon the time machine in the same way despite the fact microwaves are an extremely common appliance
No one is dumb enough to mix Microwave and phone together for shits and giggles, only one who did was an idiot chuni larping as scientist.
>somehow you can send text messages across time and space because lol plot
The world of SciAdv is like Matrix and everything is digitized and in binary, even human memory and time, so theoretically its possible. Did you actually play the VN? It explains it extensively, or did you just watch the watered down anime just so you could be smartass about it.
>somehow you can remember everything when you time travel despite the fact you never age
Do you see timeleap as "time travel but you never age". How fricking moronic are you, no wonder why you didn't get anything about the game.
Wasn't the fact the microwave had a direct connection to CERN's black hole generator (that Suzuha set up in the building when she traveled to the past) the reason that it could do what it could?
No, Daru is the one who connected it to CERN's black hole generator through Kurisu's theory (based on reading SERN's mail using Suzuha's IBM5100) to make the time leap machine.
Microwave phone (the one that sends mail though time), doesn't require black hole, only requires microwave merged with phone and CRT.
There was Suzuha's intervention though, as she made sure Okabe's lab was above the CRT store, although that didn't really affect the timeline too much as the lab still resided on top of CRT store even in the timeline where Suzuha shouldn't exist in the past.
Dark is absolute pseud shit dude. The way they broke out of the loop is completely arbitrary, and there was no reason for any of the characters to retain knowledge, let alone them not purposefully breaking the loop by saying things to themselves that they don’t remember hearing. The plot is swiss cheese if you have half a brain. And the dialogue sucked
>plot holes
Every time someone tries this with Steins;Gate they either don't understand what happened in the story or they don't understand what a plot hole actually is.
Sex with Kurisu.
>but jesus christ does it have some seriously bad plot holes sometimes
Objectively a lie. To say that the story isn't that good because you didn't find it that interesting is fair, but the plot hole thing is complete bullshit.
Read your second VN.
>plotholes
>rick and morty
Excellent bait.
The more VNs I read the more I'm convinced that Steins;Gate is the best one.
ok moron
Frick you, you probably like Fatetrash or something anyways.
wrong
Steins;Gate is incredible, but there are in fact other VNs that join it in the upper echelons of quality and taste.
even shovelware tier stuff like shironagasu island is better than S;G
>What is the point if you can't even PLAY the game?
Read, Black person, read.
If I wanted to read I would red a real book and not "read" a literal video game.
Why? If a VN was printed on paper would it somehow be better?
Kinetic novels add a lot to the experience. We needn't get into the science but music aids in making memories and is just a general enhancer for entertainment.
>If I wanted to read
Good thing that won't ever happen since you're a moronic illiterate Black person.
Go to Ganker if you want to act like such a big shot. You're on fricking Ganker.
>>The best video game storyline
>lol vegetables
>tacked on dating sim shit
no
god steins;gate fans are insufferable
>buy visual novel
>wtf why is this a visual novel
Kurisu sex
>babbys first VN loved by ironic weebs everywhere
kys OP bet you even started with the anime like the poser you are
Anyone buy the vinyl?
I didn't even know it was a thing
Was announced and put up for preorder over the last month. There are a few variants
they turned gel mayu into vinyl Morty
>vinyl
Really playing into the S;G hipster angle the story has going on.
>S;G hipster angle
Where does this schizo perception stem from?
The S;G characters are literally hipsters, was it not obvious?
>But Japan
Still hipsters.
They’re losers. Being a hipster implies some amount of being “hip”
How is it hipster when S;G is written as C;H but more appeasing for the wider public. That's literally how it got its popularity, and the reason why most people know what S;G is but doesn't know other SciAdv games
I assume it's the soundtrack
That’s really cool, I’m actually going to pick that up. Wish I could get an Ever17 vinyl, that game’s soundtrack is peak comfy
Steins Gate is pretty trash. It is absolutely not the best video game story, visual novel or not.
It's a visual novel you fricking idiot.
which is a video game
Barely.
>The best video game storyline
the terrible filler arc ruined the story
Filler where? The story has no filler.
He isn't very smart, prease understand.
>weeaboo dogshit
>best video game storyline
have a nice day.
Anime website.
KuriGohan being Kurisu the entire time makes all the @channel segments funnier in retrospect, especially when you realize she knows Okabe is Houoin Kyouma so her insults are more vicious. That’s my main takeaway from reading S;G so far. Also the Chaos;Head callbacks are cool too.
why's she post with two names instead of just one, is there a meme there
I don’t think there’s a specific reason, it’s just a wacky Dragonball reference.
Steins;Gate is shit and bad time travel.
Recent mystery EVNs on Steam over the past few years:
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1249260/Birth_ME_Code/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1228600/Blankspace/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1414250/CORPSE_FACTORY/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1568920/Clean_Slate/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1820720/The_Divine_Deception/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2011310/Entropic_Float_This_World_Will_Decay_And_Disappear/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2058090/The_Game_of_Fourtune/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1338940/Head_AS_Code/ (remake)
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1271300/Methods_The_Detective_Competition/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1020030/Quantum_Suicide/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1940040/The_Price_Of_Flesh
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2091580/SYNESTHESIA/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1513120/The_Zodiac_Trial/
Upcoming mystery EVNs on Steam:
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1728290/Decide_4_God/ (finale to the Abime series)
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1041270/Exogenesis_Perils_of_Rebirth/ (never ever)
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349820/The_Lost_Delinquents_of_Rollings_High/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1287170/Thiefs_Roulette/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1929350/Ubel/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2385550/Underground22/
For having bothered to complete Head AS Code, Corpse Factory and The Zodiac Trial after seeing them from this list (also Seikimeya) I can conclude that all the others must be as poorly written, designed, and vapid. Corpse Factory was the only one with a decent art but it couldn't be saved by its moronic story. None of them were. If you thought ZTD was bad these games are amateurish and far worse in how they take the reader for a moron. Head AS code puzzles had no reason to be there or to be so easy. Worst offender probably is the zodiac trial though. It's funny how you'd often criticize Uchikoshi or sci;adv in these threads but shill games with the same story beats, moronation and none of the polish. I hate you for making me lose around 40 hours of my life because I wanted to be open-minded and give EVNs a try.
Even this (english mind you, before you start seething at japanese content again) short flash game from 10 years ago understood how to make stories engaging with almost no art and appropriate sound design and music.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/615863
?feature=shared
Your fault for wasting time on westoid slop. I just filter his posts
You should have ignored that schizo anon. He spams this list since early 2020 in every mystery VN thread because he is paid to do so.
Steins; Gate was cool when I was a teen.
It's still cool unless you turned into a contrarian in the years since.
Nah, it's just as I've read other stories and matured, the characters don't appeal to me anymore and the story doesn't really have any cool twists when I think back on it compared to other stuff.
>cool twists
You have not matured
damn dude gottem
>it's the I Think I've Grown Up But Actually I Still Act Like A Child poster
Grim.
>the story doesn't really have any cool twists
Well that's a lie.
>tfw the timeleap device works exactly like the nomai masks
I really liked S;G 0 but it was weird as frick you had to watch the final episode of the (otherwise trashfire) anime adaption to get the ending since it isn't in the actual fricking VN.
The anime is no more of a trashfire than the vn. Both are a mess with a few redeeming moments
is A;C any good? How's the translation of it?
from what i hear, none of the other science adventure vns are all that good. a couple are ok.
Who did you hear that from lmao. Chaos;Child is way better than S;G, and I'd even say C;H is on par with S;G despite its narrative flaws.
Only reason why S;G is popular is because it has a widespread appeal, other SciAdv games are good if not better.
>murder mystery with mind control, “science” fiction with superpowers from magic swords, comically shallow villains and “we were all old, what a twist!”
>best
No
You didn't read Chaos;Head beforehand lmao. Chaos series is "delusional" science fiction based on schizophrenia, not really science science like C;H or R;N, so the writing went over your head if you didn't expect the schizphrenic delusion of mind control and magic swords.
Expecting shit doesn’t make it good. I did read Chaos;Head. The mind control and swords aren’t the schizo delusions. They’re the “scientific” basis and results of “delusions” actually being real. It’s an incredibly stupid way to look at schizo conspiracy shit. “All of this stuff is in your mind…except it actually exists, because you’re the strongest psychic on the planet :)”
My point was that science wasn't the most compelling part about the game. Game explicitly says so by calling it a "delusional" science adventure. If you played chaos series wanting that big bang theory bazinga science reference moment, instead of enjoying big dumb swords as it is, then that's kind of on you.
Then it should spend less time pretending it’s scientific by explaining the idiotic mechanics and bases for its swords and magic powers. Namedroppong le dirac sea is more bazinga than S;G because it’s total nonsense that only flies as a reference. You’re completely ignoring the other issues with it too. And you act like it’s a schizo forward work, but it’s much less so than head, to its detriment, regardless of if you know ahead of time or not
>the game is bad because it explained it's concepts
I've heard mixed things so I'm not sure. The price of the game is pretty high unfortunately.
13 Sentinels is better.
>The best video game storyline
I think you need to read more visual novel or even better, read more books.
I read visual novels you ass. S;G is still the best one.
>S;G is still the best one
>translation: i have read the science chuni series, spike chunslop and katawa shouju so im pretty much an expert on the visual novel genre
Sure thing shitposter, here's your reply.
>The best video game storyline
That's Ghost Trick. And it has gameplay compared to your chuuni schlock. Kys
complete ripoff of sao storyline and themes wise. why play such drivel anon?
I can't tell if you're joking or moronic.
S;G newbies are so fricking annoying.
S;G is not even the best in it's own series, Chaos;Head Noah is better.
And Muv-Luv is still a better sci-fi narrative, which deals with way more important themes than "dealing with time is dangerous!!" while also still applying the concept of time travel to it's story better.
Haven't played it but I'm sure it's shit, anime is gay
overrated
Chaos;Head was better. That's all.
Not at all. None of the other Science Adventure game have been able to match S;G in story.